Steph-GB
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- Mar 26, 2018
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- Land of the tractors
eeeek so many awful sounding coffee's.. I will be extra thankful for the lovely coffee I'm about to drink!!
Café du Monde coffee is the best! We can get ours at Adams here in NY.Chicory in coffee is really tasty when it is done right.if you have ever been to the Cafe du Monde in New Orleans then you have had good coffee made with chicory,they even sell their coffee in most grocery stores.I am a fan of it.
Cane Seed Coffee
A coffee substitute in the South during the blockade. It was brewed from the seeds of sugar cane that were parched and ground.
This one from "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright
Another version Georgia Cane Seed Coffee
If sugarcane can be obtained, dry it, toast and parch, and grind as coffee beans. It requires longer brewing than regular coffee to make a proper drink.
From "A Taste of War" by William C. Davis.
Oops I just posted on the wrong thread. It maybe should have been this one. So I'll ask again. How do you shell acorns?
In many of articles on coffee , it is referred to as Rio. .Rio was the nickname for genuine coffee, which was a rare item in Confederate camps. When President Davis visited General Joseph E. Johnston in Chattanooga, Tn., in December, 1862, the general's wife eagerly let friends know she had served her honored guest the "real Reo". The name came from Rio de Janeiro because of the fame of Brazilian coffee.
The problem with reading too many accounts by settlers and soldiers is not remembering any well. I think I read acorns were boiled- made the shell soft? Then peeled, roasted and ground? Those poor people. It must have taken an awful lot of wishful thinking to call it coffee.
I just saw I got several dislikes on types of coffee. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I was just posting different things people made coffee from because they couldn't get real coffee. I thought it was interesting.
Sorry to any it offends.
I often wondered if Northerners, while enjoying a cup of coffee, realized they were enjoying a Slave Produced Product? I'm guessing it was a "So-What" Attitude much like Southern Cotton and Northern Textile Mills.